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Lexicon :: Strong's H3950 - lāqaṭ

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לָקַט
Transliteration
lāqaṭ
Pronunciation
law-kat'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1125

Strong’s Definitions

לָקַט lâqaṭ, law-kat'; a primitive root; properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean:—gather (up), glean.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H3950 in the following manner: gather (23x), glean (12x), gather up (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H3950 in the following manner: gather (23x), glean (12x), gather up (2x).

  1. to pick up, gather, glean, gather up

    1. (Qal)

      1. to pick up, gather

      2. to glean

    2. (Piel)

      1. to gather, gather up

      2. to collect (money)

      3. to glean

    3. (Pual) to be picked up

    4. (Hithpael) to collect oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָקַט lâqaṭ, law-kat'; a primitive root; properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean:—gather (up), glean.
STRONGS H3950: Abbreviations
† [לָקַט] verb pick or gather up, specifically glean (Late Hebrew id. and נָקַט; Arabic bdb054401 pick up (as a bird, grains, etc.); Aramaic לְקַט, and נְקַט; bdb054402; Mandean לגט (NöM 54, also on Talmud נקט); compare Assyrian laḳâtu DlHWB 385 (but ט = t?)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person plural לָֽקְטוּ Exodus 16:22; Numbers 11:8, וְל׳ consecutive Exodus 16:4, לָקָ֑טוּ Exodus 16:18; Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural יִלְקְטוּ Exodus 16:5, יִלְקֹט֑וּן Psalm 104:28, וַיִּלְקְטוּ Exodus 16:17, 21; 2nd person masculine plural suffix תִּלְקְטֻהוּ Exodus 16:26; Imperative masculine plural לִקְטוּ Genesis 31:46; Exodus 16:16; Infinitive construct לִלְקֹט Exodus 16:27 + 2 times; —
1. pick up, gather, with accusative, stones Genesis 31:46 (J), lilies Songs 6:2; usually the manna: Exodus 16:4, 5, 26 (J), Exodus 16:21; Exodus 16:22 (P); followed by מִן partitive Exodus 16:16 (P); so absolute Exodus 16:27; Numbers 11:8 (both J E), Exodus 16:17, 18 (P); of animals gathering food תִּתֵּן לָהֶם יִלְקֹט֑וּן Psalm 104:28.
2. specifically glean, absolute, Ruth 2:8 (with בְּ local; usually Pi. in this sense).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular וְלִקְּטָה consecutive Ruth 2:16, לִקֵּ֑טָה Ruth 2:17, 18; 2nd person feminine singular לִקַּטְתְּ Ruth 2:19; Imperfect וַיְלַקִּט Genesis 47:14 + 2 times; 3rd person feminine singular תְּלַקִּט Ruth 2:15, וַתּ׳ Ruth 2:3, 17; 2nd person masculine singular תְּלַקִּט Leviticus 19:9 + 2 times; 1st person singular אֲלַקֳּטָה Ruth 2:2, 7 (compare BaNB 152, 489); Infinitive construct לְלַקִּט Ruth 2:15 + 2 times; Participle מְלַקִּט Isaiah 17:5, plural מְלַקְּטִים Judges 1:7; Jeremiah 7:18; —
1. gather, gather up, fallen grapes, Leviticus 19:10 (H), arrows 1 Samuel 20:38, (fire-)wood Jeremiah 7:18; absolute (food from ground) Judges 1:7 (compare GFM); = pick, pick off, 2 Kings 4:39 (twice in verse) (+ מִן of source).
2. figurative collect (money) Genesis 47:14 (J).
3. specifically glean, after the reapers, usually absolute Ruth 2:3, 7 (|| אָסַף), Ruth 2:17 (all with בְּ local), Ruth 2:15 (בֵּין location), Ruth 2:19 (adverb location), also Ruth 2:2 (where בְּ may be local or partitive, compare Be), also Ruth 2:15; Ruth 2:16; Ruth 2:23; with accusative Isaiah 17:5 (שִׁבֳּלִים, simile of devastation of land; || אָסַף קָצִיר), Ruth 2:17, 18; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb לֶקֶט Leviticus 19:9 = Leviticus 23:22 (H).
Pu. Imperfect 2nd person masculine plural תְּלֻקְּטוּ Isaiah 27:12 ye shall be picked up (of Israel under figure of grains or berries, after the threshing process of י׳'s judgment).
Hithp. Imperfect וַיִּתְלַקְּטוּ Judges 11:3 and there collected themselves worthless men unto (אֶל) Jephthah (were raked together GFM).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:46; 31:46; 47:14; 47:14

Exodus

16:4; 16:4; 16:5; 16:5; 16:16; 16:16; 16:17; 16:17; 16:18; 16:18; 16:21; 16:21; 16:22; 16:22; 16:26; 16:26; 16:27; 16:27

Leviticus

19:9; 19:9; 19:10; 23:22

Numbers

11:8; 11:8

Judges

1:7; 1:7; 11:3

Ruth

2:2; 2:2; 2:3; 2:3; 2:7; 2:7; 2:8; 2:15; 2:15; 2:15; 2:15; 2:16; 2:16; 2:17; 2:17; 2:17; 2:17; 2:18; 2:18; 2:19; 2:19; 2:23

1 Samuel

20:38

2 Kings

4:39

Psalms

104:28; 104:28

Song of Songs

6:2

Isaiah

17:5; 17:5; 27:12

Jeremiah

7:18; 7:18

H3950

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3950 matches the Hebrew לָקַט (lāqaṭ),
which occurs 37 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:5 - On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer[fn] for each person you have in your tent.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17 - The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18 - And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21 - Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:22 - On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers[fn] for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27 - Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - Then Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves and don’t reprimand her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16 - Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:38 - Then he shouted, “Hurry! Go quickly! Don’t stop!” The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:28 - When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 - She: My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.
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